Boilerplate (text) - Boilerplate language. 1  In contract law, the term boilerplate language describes the parts of a contract that are considered standard.
In urban planning, a city square or urban square is a planned open area in a city, usually or originally rectangular in shape. 1  Red Square in Moscow was originally used as an outdoor marketplace and later became the stage for Soviet military parades and May Day demonstrations.
A city-state is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories. Historically, this included cities such as Rome, Athens, Carthage, and the Italian city-states during the Renaissanceâbut today only a handful of sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which are city-states.